Documentation for load() is wrong

[cirodrig]

The documentation has many instances of load being called with one argument, which is invalid usage since release 6.0. For instance, one example looks like this:

>>> stream = file('document.yaml', 'r')    # 'document.yaml' contains a single YAML document.
>>> yaml.load(stream)

This call of load does not work in release 6.0.

Also, the signature in the Reference section is incorrect. The signature is given as load(stream, Loader=Loader) but the correct signature is load(stream, Loader).

[Rosuav]

Replacing all examples of yaml.load with yaml.safe_load would make them functional again. Please can this be fixed?

[mattalxndr]

Is this project dead or something?

I had assumed it was the unofficial default yaml plugin for Python, but poking around in these issues, it seems like most of the examples in your docs (anything that calls yaml.load(input) with only a single argument) have been spitting errors for four years.

    out = yaml.load("""
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: load() missing 1 required positional argument: 'Loader'
python-BaseException

Process finished with exit code 1

yaml/pyyaml#576

[ChrisBarker-NOAA]

What is up with the documentation?

Looks like this change occured almost three years ago, adn the docs are still completely out of date.

And they are also not helpful in deciding what Loader to use -- if there isn't going to be a default, there really should be guidance up front! Maybe something in the error message even.

Is there a new source of the docs?

https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml.org

looks like it hasn't been updated in 4 years -- which would explain things ...

[rafrafek]

I am very confused. Is PyYaml still working? For me none of the code works and I'm getting Argument missing for parameter "Loader" errors. Also the print function is using wrong syntax SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)?.

@nitzmahone can you give us an update if PyYaml is abandoned? Are there any alternatives for parsing yaml files in Python?